Can you buy your way into college?

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>"…there are definitely many things to stress out about. Thankfully, at schools like Princeton, your financial status isn’t one of them. With the generous financial aid program offered here, students don’t have to worry about whether or not their parents can afford the $50,000 yearly price tag of the University…</p>

<p>…many top-tier private schools were hit hard by the financial crisis and still have not fully recovered their investments and endowments. That may be why last fall, Williams College started to admit more international students who could pay full tuition while Middlebury College and Wake Forest University began to consider the financial statuses of their wait-listed students as a factor in admissions…"</p>

<p>[Can</a> you buy your way into college? - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/03/03/27815/]Can”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/03/03/27815/)</p>

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<p>Sure! Apply ED anywhere w/out needing aid and you will have a significantly better chance being accepted than those needing aid…</p>

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<p>We cannot start saying that these places are not generous enough with finaid… This is not “buying your way into college”, this is colleges doing what they need to survive the economic downswing.</p>

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<p>If you donate a few million to a college, I’m sure they’d be happy to take you on board.</p>